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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79DA079

1979-09-13 MT AIRY, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N31NA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN T-28B

Year of manufacture

1954 · 25 years old at event

Engine

WRIGHT R-1820 SER (1475 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19860605

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A345A5

Registrant of record

NORTHERN FLIGHT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N31NA Grumman AA1C None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

GRUMMAN AA1C · N31NA

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00AA-1C-0208

Total time

820 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,624

Age

59

Investigator remarks

INST PILOT DEMO EMERGENCY LAND OPEN FIELD.

Cause factors

64/A/52 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2653. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2653.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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